LOS ANGELES — Ashton Kutcher has resigned as chairman of the board of an anti-child intercourse abuse group that he co-founded, after he and spouse Mila Kunis wrote letters searching for leniency for his or her former “That ‘70s Show” co-star and convicted rapist, Danny Masterson.
Kutcher stepped down from the board of Thorn, a corporation he based with then-wife Demi Moore in 2009, on Thursday, the group mentioned in a press release.
“After my wife and I spent several days of listening, personal reflection, learning, and conversations with survivors and the employees and leadership at Thorn, I have determined the responsible thing for me to do is resign as Chairman of the Board, effectively immediately,” Kutcher wrote in a letter to the board. “I cannot allow my error in judgment to distract from our efforts and the children we serve.”
A Los Angeles choose sentenced Masterson to 30 years to life in jail on Sept. 7. The actor was convicted in May of raping two girls in 2003, when he was starring on the Fox retro sitcom “That ‘70s Show” with Kutcher and Kunis.
The day after the sentencing, letters to the choose from Kutcher, Kunis and plenty of others have been made public. In Kutcher’s, he referred to as Masterson a person who in his expertise had handled folks “with decency, equality, and generosity.”
Kutcher and Kunis apologized the subsequent day in an Instagram video for writing the letters, which Kutcher mentioned “were intended for the judge to read and not to undermine the testimony of the victims or retraumatize them in any way.”
Kutcher mentioned in his resignation letter, first reported by Time journal, that he provided “my heartfelt apology to all victims of sexual violence and everyone at Thorn who I hurt by what I did.”
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